Elections in Germany, heavy defeat for Scholz, victory for the far right

The exit polls of the regional elections in Germany - considered a crucial test for the central executive chaired by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, now halfway through his mandate -, indicate heavy losses to the centre-left coalition in government while the centre-right, the opposition in Berlin, he confirms himself in power in Bavaria and Hesse as widely expected. According to vote projections, all three coalition parties - Scholz's centre-left SPD, the Greens and the liberal FDP - lost ground in the southern state of Bavaria, the country's largest, and in the western state of Bavaria. Hesse. In both states, conservative and right-wing populist parties used the election campaign to target the Scholz government over migration and energy policy. And it paid off

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